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Spirituality and the Recovery Movement - Hogg Foundation for ...

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Religious & Spiritual <strong>Recovery</strong>1. Trans<strong>for</strong>mative religious & spiritual experience constitutes alegitimate catalyst of addiction/mental health recovery2. Living in a community of shared experience, strength <strong>and</strong> hopeheightens <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>and</strong> stability of addiction/mental healthrecovery.3. <strong>Recovery</strong> is something more than <strong>the</strong> removal of alcohol &drugs/mental health family problems from an o<strong>the</strong>rwiseunchanged life, e.g., reconstruction of one’s relationship withGod, with o<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>and</strong> with oneself.4. Beyond <strong>Recovery</strong> often involves <strong>the</strong> embrace of core spiritualvalues, e.g., release, freedom, gratitude, humility, service work,giving back, tolerance <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong>giveness

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